GitHub for Web Designers

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5/14/2014

GitHub has become the industry-standard version control and publishing platform for web developers, but it's great for designers too. This course shows web designers how GitHub can dramatically improve their workflow and assist in creating and publishing sites. Senior lynda.com author James Williamson shows how to sign up for an account and install GitHub client and Git, the version control system GitHub is based on. He then shows you how to use Github to work with team members and collaborate with contributors to open-source projects.

Topics include:

Creating an account

Installing GitHub

Git basics

Adding files to Git

Checking differences

Creating, switching, and updating branches

Creating a new GitHub repository

Managing files with the GitHub client

Working with collaborators

Skill Level Intermediate

3h 56m

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(melodic tunes)- [Voiceover] Hi, I'm James Williamson,senior author at Lynda.comand I want to welcome you to GitHub for web designers.GitHub has become the industry standard wayto share and distribute code over the internet.Along the way, it's become an integral partof many web design workflows.However, GitHub was largely created byand for web developers.So, in this course,I wanna take a web designer's approachto learning and using GitHub.We'll start by examining what GitHub is,how it works,and the value that it can add to your workflow.

We'll start by creating a GitHub account.And then defining your personal profile.From there, we'll step outside of GitHubto take a brief look at git.The version control system that GitHub is based off of.After that, we'll download the desktop applicationsand get started with basic GitHub workflows.Along the way, we'll explore the conceptsthat are critical to using GitHub correctly.Then we'll move on to using GitHub to collaboratewith team members and how to use it sociallyto collaborate on opensource projects.Let's demystify GitHub.And find out how it can help yoube a more efficient web designer.